Indeed, but I'm sure we can agree that it's pretty stupid for every distro to maintain its own repo. That's a lot of duplicate work, which could be spend on more useful things. Luckily flatpak is well on its way to change that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm... But different distros have different philosophies (not just) about updates. That's part of why people choose a specific distro.

Theres still plenty speaking against flatpak (larger sizes, problems with GTK/qt themes, and it's only meant for GUI applications - you still need a separate system for the kernel and lower-level/cli tools. And frankly, that makes flatpak unusable to me, because the purpose of a centralized package management system is not having duplicate systems).

So in short: y'all are gonna pry pacman from my cold, dead hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The same goes for me, but with Portage, brother.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not against distros as a whole, some extra work will be inevitable because people have different preferences, but it feels like a waste having a Firefox package for arch, ubuntu, fedora and Debian while essentially all being identical. Indeed flatpak isn't perfect yet, but it works great for me and it's steadily improving